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Last year, urged on by hard-headed ECA advisors from the U.S., Vanoni ordained a new deal. It provided simply that everyone concerned trust each other and tell the truth. Two months ago, their past sins forgiven and forgotten in accordance with the new law, the taxpayers of Italy filled out the government's new 16-page tax returns and shipped them...
Lightheartedly, French Novelist Pierre Daninos said yes when ECA asked him to write the captions for a NATO movie cartoon. Then, because this made him a foreign employee of a U.S. Government agency, Daninos received the usual four-page questionnaire asking about his 1) birth & parentage, 2) complexion & distinctive body marks, 3) emotional & mental state, 4) drinking habits, 5) aliases, if any, 6) connections with the Communist Party, if any, 7) past & present employment in detail-and some 50 other questions. Daninos filled in the questionnaire, named three character references, duly swore that he had no intention of "upsetting...
Owning Up. Taft draws attention to certain of his own blunders, a refreshing contrast to the smoke-screen technique of the Trumanites who have never owned up to their own catastrophic miscalculations. He originally opposed the Marshall Plan, but once "the Russian threat was apparent" he was for ECA. Before Korea, he went along with the inadequate Truman reductions in the military budgets because "twelve to thirteen billion dollars a year . . . seemed a large sum to me, and I took the word of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Washington helped the infant republic with war damage dollars, war surplus, ECA bequests, RFC loans, millions in back pay to Filipino soldiers and guerrillas. Altogether the U.S., in six years, put $2 billion into the Philippines. But the money flowed in without proper planning, or proper safeguards. Instead of going into the mouths or onto the backs of Filipinos, U.S. surplus and relief goods slid from one speculator and profiteer to another. It was a poor trader who could not triple or quadruple his investment in pencils, tractors or derricks...
...showed little practical interest in the fight against Communism. He voted for 7 out of 16 of the amendments to limit the scope or cut the amount of ECA and other foreign aid bills. This year, he voted for a $500 million cut in the Mutual Security Act extending military and economic aid to Europe. Commented a fellow Republican Senator: "McCarthy simply has never been in the picture. He's off on that stuff...